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Upupa epops. Hoopoes are one of my favourite birds, but they are scarce migants to Britain. Their main breeding range is from southern Europe eastwards across Asia. Every year they are spring overshoot mrigrants to Britain and annual in Yorkshire. They are even scarcer in the autumn so this this bird at Collingham, West Yorkshire has been very popular with birdwatchers. It was quite tame and came pretty close to its crowd of admires, fortunately including myself.
I've been going to Merced National Wildlife Refuge during the month of February the last couple of years to view the Lesser Sandhill Cranes and other birds that stop there on their annual migration. I couldn't believe how many Geese were there this year. At Merced we have a saying, "make sure your mouth is closed while you look up". I think this demonstrates why. lol Taken on a Donald Quintana Photo Tour.
This morning I visited both ends of the Matsqui Trail Park which borders the Fraser River. In both areas I found many Ruby-crowned Kinglets feeding and singing and moving up river.
This gorgeous Red-breasted Merganser stopped by for a week or so and gave us many opportunities. I always try to capture my subjects in fall colours when possible.
Another bird to draw attention to plight of child refugees. They are migrating in their hundreds of thousands all over the world, through no fault of their own...
(exhibition will be in Bratislava in September).
Shot with Nikon FM2 on Kodak Gold 200 film.
Digitized with Epson V500 Scanner.
Mondorf-Les-Bains, Luxembourg
Well, what looked like the end of migration, took an upturn today as a new influx of birds took place! My dear friend Janice called this morning to let me know, and I let my friends Lindell and Carolyn know, and we spent an amazing day in Janice's legendary migration backyard hotspot! She lives close to Fort Morgan and after so many days of hiking all day for birds at the fort, we decided it was time to opt for an easier day, enjoying Janice's backyard in today's gorgeous weather!
Black Kite
Medium-sized, rather nondescript raptor with overall dark plumage. Slightly forked tail, the fork disappearing when the tail is fully open. Head and neck are short. The juvenile is paler with a pale panel on upperwings and a dark mask around the eyes. Flight style buoyant, gliding and changing direction with ease. Commonly found in urban areas, rubbish dumps, aquatic habitats, grassland, but usually avoids heavily forested areas. May be found solitarily but also in large flocks on migration and at good feeding areas. eBird
A couple of whoopers were seen at Lake Thunderbird yesterday, so I took a drive out and dipped. Saw a raft of mostly Bonaparte's Gulls I estimated at 8-10 thousand. Taking flight here and headed south. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Second in my Snowy Owl series, this image shows the car roof that the owl chose as its perch. It is preening here and if you look closely, you can see several tiny bits of white feathers in the air surrounding the bird! I can see eight, actually. I usually clone out little 'blemishes' like that, but here I think it adds to the story. The subsequent images will not include the car...
The story behind this shot:
I always have my camera and wildlife lens in my car, and just before my lunch hour at 11am on October 21st, someone alerted me to the fact that a Snowy owl was sitting on a small car out in the parking lot across the street. Hoping it had not flown away, I grabbed my gear at the beginning of my half hour lunch, hurried across the street and there, preening and sitting calmly, was this gorgeous bird!
I aligned myself so there were trees in the background, fired off over 50 shots, then left the bird in peace and headed back to grab a bite to eat before returning to work.
Doing a bit of research, I found that more than 30 Snowies have arrived in this area in the last two weeks alone, signalling a larger-than-normal migration from the Arctic this season. The somewhat bizarre behavior of this owl being perched on a parked car, was explained by an area conservation biologist:
1-- they have just arrived exhausted by a migration of thousands of miles and, once landed, they need to rest and are reluctant to move
2-- they see no/few people in the Arctic, so they have little fear of humans
3-- they tend to hunt at night and rest in the daytime, therefore move very little in the day
This was not the only owl spotted in a city parking lot that day, so the situation was not as bizarre as it seemed.
Hopefully, this means we will be seeing many of these stunning birds this winter. This photographer will be ready!!
First base with the river on six regular baseplates (32 x 32) for the event MOC. Two more to go on both sides to make it an eighteen regular baseplate (32 x 32) footprint.
It's officially Fall, so I thought this was appropriate subject matter. Taken a couple of years ago in Virginia.
MTM's annual migration move from Jackson Street to Osceola throttles up after waiting for lights further west at Midway. Powering the train this year is MNTX SDP40 325 in GN paint, and MNTX SD9 6234 in BN paint
Ex West Yorkshire Lance having arrived from Leeds for eventual use in Cornwall, this was taken in the Ride depot (one of those occasions I turned up asked to look round and was allowed).
The yard was full of Lances, ex Hong Kong Darts which had come via PMT and Wales was certainly an interesting time, quite like the livery on this (Leeds City Link?) quite retro looking!
The Annual MTM Migration Train to Osceola, minus MNTX 325 is see here passing Maple Island on a hazy mid-May day
I never would have though I would see swans from my backyard. The sturgeon river flooded the fields below me attracting a huge amount of waterfowl yesterday. Hundreds of white-fronted geese and tundra swans and of coarse lots of ducks. Backyard birding St.Albert
I returned once again this year to the Middle Creek Wildlife Conservation Area in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, to view the annual snow goose migration.
After a slow start this year due inclement weather in February, the numbers of geese have exploded into the hundreds of thousands in recent days, leading to some incredibly impressive mass liftoffs.
Musée des Confluences Lyon
Hema Upadhyay, Mute migration, 2008 (245 x 612,5 cm Matériaux composites, objets de récupération.
Wildebeest march across the Masai Mara national reserve on a summer morning.
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